John L. Roberts, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
678-839-0615
jroberts@wes tga.edu
Melson Hall - Room 203
Office Hours
By appointment
John was born in 1966 in Birmingham, Alabama, but grew up mostly elsewhere, in Rome, Italy and Richmond, Virginia. After earning a B.A. from Virginia Military Institute, he received his J.D. from Cumberland School of Law, LL.M. from Tulane Law School, and practiced law in the areas of civil rights and plaintiff litigation. Returning to graduate school, John received an M.A. in English from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, specializing in eighteenth-century British literature, critical theory, and rhetoric. John's own profound and transformative experiences in humanistic psychotherapy led him to the psychology department at the University of West Georgia, where he earned an M.A. degree. He practiced psychotherapy for several years, and later returned to our department to receive his Ph.D. He is the author of Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject (Routledge). John's interests include theoretical and philosophical approaches to psychology, histories of consciousness and subjectivity, and psychoanalysis.
- PSYC-3470 (Existential Psychology)
- PSYC-4010 (Theories of Psychology)
- PSYC-4030 (Hist & Philosoph of Psychology)
- PSYC-4085A (Psychoanalysis: Freud & Beyond)
- PSYC-4881 (Psychiatric Nursing)
- PSYC-6000 (Foundations Humanistic Psych)
- PSYC-6881 (Rogerian Learning)
- PSYC-6882 (Trauma and Recovery)
- PSYC-6899 (Thesis Completion)
- PSYC-7250 (Foundations of Psychoanalysis)
- PSYC-7810D (Hermeneutics & Psychology)
- PSYC-8000 (Consciousness & Experience)
- PSYC-8008 (Humanistic Foundations of PSYC)
- PSYC-8260 (Psych, Epistemology & Ethics)
- PSYC-8270 (Depth Psychology)
- PSYC-8581 (Bionian Post Bionian Field App)
- PSYC-9002 (Doctoral Qualifying Seminar)
Spring 2025 Sections
- PSYC-3470 (Existential Psychology) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4010 (Theories of Psychology) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8008 (Humanistic Foundations of PSYC) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2024 Sections
- PSYC-6000 (Foundations of Humanistic) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6881 (Consciousness Studies) Section: E04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8000 (Consciousness & Experience) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2024 Sections
- PSYC-4010 (Theories of Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6000 (Foundations Humanistic Psych) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-9002 (Doctoral Qualifying Seminar) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2023 Sections
- PSYC-4030 (History&PhilosophyofPsychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8000 (Consciousness & Experience) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2023 Sections
- PSYC-4010 (Theories of Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6000 (Foundations Humanistic Psych) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8260 (Psych, Epistemology & Ethics) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2022 Sections
- PSYC-4085A (Psychoanalysis: Freud & Beyond) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4881 (Psychiatric Nursing) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8000 (Consciousness & Experience) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2022 Sections
- PSYC-3470 (Existential Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6000 (Foundations Humanistic Psych) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6899 (Thesis) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6899 (Thesis Completion) Section: 07 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-7250 (Foundations of Psychoanalysis) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2021 Sections
- PSYC-4010 (Theories of Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4030 (History&PhilosophyofPsychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6881 (Rogerian Learning) Section: N01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8581 (Lacanian Analysis Recoveries) Section: E04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8581 (Oneiric Approach Field Theory) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2021 Sections
- PSYC-4010 (Theories of Psychology) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4030 (Hist & Philosoph of Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2021 Sections
- PSYC-4010 (Theories of Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6000 (Foundations Humanistic Psych) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6882 (Psychoanalytic Theory) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8270 (Depth Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2020 Sections
- PSYC-4010 (Theories of Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6882 (Trauma and Recovery) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-7810D (Hermeneutics & Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8581 (Bionian Post Bionian Field App) Section: E04 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource